Progressive Geographies

Zizek interview and speech

Posted on November 3, 2011 by stuartelden

Slavoj Žižek interviewed by Al Jazeera.

And a speech at at St. Mark’s bookshop. This is transcribed here.

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‘Are radical journals selling out?’

Posted on November 3, 2011 by stuartelden

Interesting piece in The Times Higher Education Supplement, by geographer Alastair Bonnett. Mentions a range of journals within and beyond the discipline, including Antipode, Radical Philosophy and New Left Review, with a special focus on Human Geography: A New Radical Journal.

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Summer School in PostInternational Politics

Posted on November 3, 2011 by stuartelden

GREGYNOG IDEAS LAB

Summer School in PostInternational Politics

Gregynog, 9-14 July 2012

The inaugural Gregynog Ideas Lab, a Summer School in PostInternational Politics, will take place 9-14 July, 2012. The Summer School will provide a unique opportunity for graduate students and academics to return to key texts and thinkers from critical, postcolonial, feminist, post-structural and psychoanalytic traditions, to re-examine their work and how it has been employed in international politics, and to ask whether the radical potential of this work is in danger of being lost.

A series of lectures and seminars by guest professors who are key figures in the field will be combined with discussion groups based on assigned pre-readings. Held in the unique surroundings of Gregynog Hall, the Summer School offers a week of intensive immersion in this thought for those new to the field or isolated in their own institutions in a supportive and friendly residential environment.

Our guest professors will be:

Richard K Ashley; Diana Coole; Jenny Edkins; Naeem Inayatullah; Louiza Odysseos (tbc); Mustapha Pasha; Michael J Shapiro; Maria Stern; R.B.J. Walker; Marysia Zalewski; Maja Zehfuss

For more information about the event and on how to apply please visit: http://www.gregynog.blogspot.com/

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Shock and Awe conference

Posted on November 1, 2011 by stuartelden

To be held in London in just over a week – details here. Derek Gregory is the closing speaker and you can find a shorter version of some of his arguments on this topic at Open Democracy.

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Political Geography lecture at RGS 2012

Posted on November 1, 2011 by stuartelden

I’ve been invited to give the Political Geography journal lecture at the 2012 Royal Geographical Society conference, which will be held in Edinburgh. The theme of the conference is ‘Security of geography/geography of security’, and so I’ve provisionally agreed that I will give a version of the lecture I’ll be giving a couple of months earlier at the University of Kentucky for the Committee on Social Theory, with the title ‘Secure the Volume: Vertical Geopolitics and the Depth of Power’. The lecture is intended to appear in a later issue of the journal. ‘Volume’ is one of the intended chapters of my planned next book, The Space of the World, so it will try out some of the ideas I have for that. I’m obviously very grateful to the editors of the journal for inviting me to do this.

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Collapse II – Speculative Realism free download

Posted on November 1, 2011 by stuartelden

Collapse II – the Speculative Realism issue with papers by Meillassoux, Harman, Negarestani, Brassier, etc. is available to download free here.

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Three good days in London

Posted on November 1, 2011 by stuartelden

Three good days in London. Susan and I had a nice walk through Holland Park (easily my favourite park in London); visited the St. Paul’s occupation; had a great evening at our friends’ birthday party; saw ‘The Ides of March’ (very good); and I certainly enjoyed the Steven Wilson gig… Also some meetings on Monday at Sage on past and future projects; saw Laurence Hemming give a very interesting paper on Hegel, Marx, Heidegger and alienation and some good bookshop browsing…

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